diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index c6c27fc6c..b970db53c 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@ Fixed bugs:
    <zipfileset>s that used the prefix or fullpath attributes.
    Bugzilla Report 49605.
 
+ * If forked, after finished <java> was still reading the input stream
+   for a bunch of characters, then stealing them from a following <input>.
+   Bugzilla Report 49119.
+
 Other changes:
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diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PumpStreamHandler.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PumpStreamHandler.java
index 573f40679..049023194 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PumpStreamHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PumpStreamHandler.java
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ public class PumpStreamHandler implements ExecuteStreamHandler {
     /*protected*/ StreamPumper createInputPump(InputStream is, OutputStream os,
                                 boolean closeWhenExhausted) {
         StreamPumper pumper = new StreamPumper(is, os, closeWhenExhausted,
-                                               false);
+                                               true);
         pumper.setAutoflush(true);
         return pumper;
     }